Technology Development and the Long Game
Do you remember a time when, in order to get a new version of the software, you had to wait for new diskettes to come in the mail? The first company I worked for...
Category: Programming
Your Database Change Needs To Be Committed!
It was a harrowing situation. Most of my development team was gone for the day and I was trying to swing back into action. The customer was unable to work with their equipment, and...
Parsing Strings into Different Data Types
There are two fundamental things to understand about parsing strings. Unless another program is making the string that you’re parsing, things can always go awry (and a program may not always make it correctly...
Should we teach Unit Testing Along with Programming?
Why are we still teaching programming without teaching unit testing? Do we ever want quality code?
Getting Orders Into the System
For this first step, I describe a system that I’m using to get orders into my system.
Building an Inventory Management Application
When you have a problem to solve and you can write your own applications, you have to start by choosing whether to buy or build. For me, it’s time to build.
Let’s Start with SELECT
I must type “SELECT * FROM …..” hundreds of times a day. Would it be more efficient to specify the columns or save the SQL so that I don’t have to keep typing it...
Four Basic Commands
I think I’ve been brainwashed by movies to think that imparting knowledge to the next generation can take place during a 5 minute montage where they go from knowing nothing about coding to being...
Teaching Kids SQL
Teaching kids how to program should be similar to teaching them English or a different language. I stress should. As any programmer knows, while what we do could be boiled down to a few concepts...
jQuery Sortable
Ever want to be able to drag things around and sort them? As part of my research into how to drag and drop items for a project, I stumbled across this jQuery UI Sortable...
